HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:    Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs 

TIME & DATE:  10:30 AM or upon final adjourn./recess or bill referral if permission granted
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 

PLACE:       E2.016 
CHAIR:       Rep. Cole Hefner 

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The chair may limit testimony time and the number of testifying witnesses

to ensure consideration of posted and pending business, especially if

testimony would cause the public hearing to extend into the next calendar

day.

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HB 17          Hefner | et al.                                        
Relating to the purchase of or acquisition of title to real property by certain aliens or foreign entities; creating a criminal offense.

HB 34          Metcalf                                               
Relating to prohibiting the investment of state money in certain countries and in certain private business entities in those countries.

HB 41          Hefner | et al.                                        
Relating to the acquisition or use of certain foreign equipment or services by a governmental entity.

HB 118         Hefner                                                
Relating to the establishment and powers and duties of the Texas Advisory Committee on Pacific Conflict.

HB 119         Gerdes                                                
Relating to the registration as a lobbyist of persons who engage in certain lobbying activities on behalf of a foreign adversary and to prohibitions on the receipt of compensation related to those lobbying activities;  providing a civil penalty.

HB 127         Wilson                                                
Relating to measures to protect public institutions of higher education from foreign adversaries and to the prosecution of the criminal offense of theft of trade secrets; providing civil and administrative penalties; increasing a criminal penalty.

HB 128         Orr | et al.                                          
Relating to certain sister-city agreements between governmental entities and foreign countries and communities.

HB 129         McQueeney                                             
Relating to a prohibition on certain governmental contracts with foreign adversary companies and federally banned companies; authorizing a civil penalty.

HB 130         Bonnen                                                
Relating to genetic information security for residents of this state; providing a civil penalty; providing a private cause of action.

HB 132         Lopez, Ray                                            
Relating to the confidentiality of information used to prevent, detect, respond to, or investigate a hostile act of a foreign adversary of the United States.

HB 133         Lopez, Janie                                          
Relating to creating the criminal offenses of transnational repression and unauthorized enforcement of foreign law and to a study and law enforcement training regarding transnational repression.

Texas residents who wish to electronically submit comments related to

agenda items on this notice without testifying in person can do so until

the hearing is adjourned by visiting:

https://comments.house.texas.gov/home?c=c308

For those persons who will be testifying, information for in-person witness registration, can be found here: https://mytxlegis.capitol.texas.gov/HWRSPublic/About.aspx

A live video broadcast of this hearing will be available here: https://house.texas.gov/video-audio/

Instructions related to public access to the meeting location are available here: https://house.texas.gov/committees/public-access-house-committee-meetings/

NOTICE OF ASSISTANCE AT PUBLIC MEETINGS

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